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I’ve been trying to get myself not to post about Iraq any more, but as you can see, I can’t help it. Slate’s Fred Kaplan has written a story dismissing some projections of civilian casualties in Iraq when we invade. He makes the valid point that there’s no real way to tell how many casualties [...]

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At the request of a reader, I’ve added the ability to subscribe to an RSS feed with full posts in addition to the default feed, which provides excerpts of longer posts. RSS feed with full posts I figure this provides maximum flexibility for you, the readers. To me, the important part of this site is the [...]

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How to Interview a Programmer is a link that’s making the rounds. It’s of interest to me because hiring and getting hired is a huge part of a programmer’s career. If I’m going to work with someone, I always want to be part of the interview process so that I can make sure we [...]

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I’m still trying to figure out my log4j problem from the other day, but I’ve been derailed by my attempts to debug servlets in an IDE. For whatever reason, I have been unable to get debugging to work properly in the IDEs that I’ve tried, and I have to say that I find it incredibly [...]

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On February 13, the Washington Post reported that US special forces were already on the ground in Iraq, doing special forces type stuff. The article brought in a lot of flack and the newspaper’s ombudsman has responded. While I’m not in favor of the media putting the lives of US soldiers at risk, I think [...]

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A Microsoft product manager says that the future of IM is all companies managing the identities of people inside their organization, and the usage of a clearinghouse to broker connections between organizations. That certainly seems like a more reasonable approach than what we have today — people using public IM (totally insecure) or internal systems [...]

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Last night I dreamt that the war with Iraq had begun. For some reason an Iraqi plane (at first it was a jet fighter, but later turned out to be a cargo plane that was suspected to be carrying chemical weapons or something) had left Iraqi airspace, and because it was deemed a threat that [...]

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First, log4j is a logging library for Java, and a very popular one at that. Basically, rather than just putting a bunch of print statements in your code, you can use log4j to handle logging in a highly structured and configurable way. The best thing about it is that you can sprinkle all sorts of [...]

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As a followup to my earlier post on appeasement, I followed a trail to the thoughts of Alistair Cooke, who actually bore witness to the policy of appeasement and can compare it to today’s events. Cooke offers a compelling account of the events that led to World War II, and sums up with this:

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Here’s a must-read op-ed from the Jamaica Gleaner (unearthed by stonefishspine) that makes a great argument against the doctrine of pre-emptive war that the Bush administration has espoused. One tasty bite:

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blockquote> This Doctrine, which proclaims the right of the United States to intervene in any country it deems a threat, is one which can be [...]

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